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Words to describe people

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longhair
blackleg
double-dome
white-livered
dittohead

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PRONUNCIATION:

(hwyt-LIV-uhrd)

MEANING:

adjective: Cowardly.

ETYMOLOGY:

From the former belief that a lack of vigor or courage was from a deficiency of bile which showed in a light-colored liver. Earliest documented use: 1546. Also known as lily-livered.

USAGE:

“Fillmore jumped on a fence post, straddled a rail, and shouted at the Confederates, ‘Surrender, you white-livered sons of guns!’”
Eric Wittenberg, et al; One Continuous Fight; Savas Beatie; 2008.

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